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Who's doing the doing to whom?
The creature lacks skill proficiency, so even if allowed, I'm not sure what good it'd do.
The caster might be able to get an Aid from the creature, though a crit fail's more likely I'd think.
In turn, it seems the Illusory Creature would be immune to Demoralize, so it balances out, right?
There's more to Demoralizing than speaking though that "...you can use your actions to speak through the creature,..." portion makes it sound vaguely like you could do this. And Demoralize's traits don't interfere mechanically. Hmm. Bit gray, isn't it?
If I did allow it, I'd implement the Deception/Performance check too. So doable, but with two necessary rolls.
The shenanigan to be wary for is somebody trying to bypass the 10-minute immunity by having "the creature" doing it instead. That wouldn't fly, which leads me to thinking that considering the Illusory Creature as a source doesn't gel well enough with the rules for my tastes.
Except I'm still torn because I like the notion of a monster scaring critters on one's behalf. Except using the caster's Charisma...
So in the end I might allow it for a special circumstance (rule of cool overriding my wariness), probably wouldn't as a SOP, and definitely would not allow it to bypass the 10-minute immunity.
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Absolutley allow it. The illusion is just the vehicle. It is the caster doing the demoralising. It is the casters skill roll. With perhaps a Deception skill roll, so that the target doesn't realize they are being conned.
Everything in Deception and Initmidation could be useful. This is what you should be doing with an illusionary creature. If not, Illusionary Creature is a really poor summon spell.
Would you allow it? Why or why not?
Sure, but it wouldn't change any of the requirements such as being within 30' of the caster. I wouldn't allow you to, for instance, have the Illusory Creature 500' away and then affect someone 530' away from the caster.
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It's logical and thematic to let an illusion play upon the morale, to intimidate and demoralize someone. Sounds like a cool trick.
The situation reminds me of the situation at the end of the Wizard of Oz, where they are standing in the throne room and the image of the Great and Powerful Oz is towering over them trying to scare them into submission
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It seems like a neat trick, and not really overpowered, even if it bypasses the immunity after ten minutes.
One thing I would say is that if the caster is further than 30 feet, they get a penalty on intimidate, as they can't assess the reactions quite as well, and it becomes a heavy penalty if they are too far to see and hear what is going on.